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USS Halford (DD-480), LT Donald Dertien, ship’s gunnery officer, in the Mark 37 gun director, 8 May 1944. The Radar overhead is a Mark 4. Dertien enlisted in the Navy in 1940, and he was commissioned an ensign in 1941 after successfully completing the Navy’s “90-day wonder program” on the USS Arkansas (BB-33). He was stationed at Pearl Harbor and was aboard the USS Farragut (DD-348) when Pearl was attacked, then transferred to Halford in 1943 for the rest of the war. He retired as a captain in 1968 and passed away in 2015, aged 97. 80-G-256457